The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-17


range for the supply Of the active demand
for small notes.
A STRANGE thing about Dale County,
Fla, is the fact that there is not public
road in the county.
THERE will be an immense pineapple
crop on the Florida islands and mainland
the ensuing season.
WITH no Congress to abuse, the para
grapher will now have to turn his attcn.
ton to spring poets.
THE Legis lature Of Tennessee has by
decided majority refused to pass y bill
making lynching felony.
HANNAH BArrERsBY, the fattest woman
before the public, weighs 72S pounds. She
eats "A half pound of candy daily.
THE Government Fish Hatchery at Wash.
ington is now Matching 5000, 600 white fish
eggs, the fry to be placed in Lake Erie
THE King of Sweden has tiattercd Bis
marck by following his example and dis
solving Parliament because it declines to
obey his orders.
THE estate Of the late Cyrus H. McCor-
mick, ST., Of Chicago, foots up q total of
moro than q ,5OO, 900, the profit of the pat
cnt rcaping machine.
A COUPLE named Blodget, at Gilroy, CAL.
have been married seventy-nine years.
Tho husband is ninety-niue years old and
his wife ninety.seven.
JUsrlcr GRAY is the only bachelor upon
the United States Supreme bench. He is
the largest man in tho court, the baldest,
end is q famous epicure.
IT is rumored that Pobiedonostchieff is
to be De Gicr's successor as Russian Min
ister Of Foreign Affairs. What a toboggan
slide his door-pla would make, though!
LAST year the people Of this country
smoked $50, ,S98, ,5SS cigars-an average of
Ovcr fifty for every man, woman and child
in the land. We are nation of smokers.
JENNIE JUNE has seen the women Of all
nations, and has made up her mind that
American women stand at the head for
health, complexion, taste and good temper.
A PACKAGE mailed at Boston, for the
Prince Of Wales, is held ut the dead-letter
Odicc, Washington, for postage. In appear
ancc 1t appears to be an Internal appa-
ratus.
il is estimated that thirty thousand fe-
males could find husbands inside of fort
night in Wyoming and Montana territories,
anal why the procession doesn't move is .
mysicry.
AsrAruE Of Robert Burns is to be placed
In Washington Park, Albany, in accord
snco with the will Of the late Mary Nc.
fhcrson, who left soO,0 for the purpose
last year.
GEORGE N. PULLMAN, the millionaire car.
builder, is now Sir George, member of
tho Italian nobility and the debtor of King
Humbert for the honor Of being thus
Inightcd.
The Peabody fund (London) now
amounts to A,553,3aO. The original gift
wss t2,5OO, ,OOO, the balance having been
added to it by the money received for
reat and interest.
The name Of the new Consul to Mexico,
. Missouri gentleman, is Elizabeth Caro-
line Moore. He was named for his two
grandmothcrs. His grandfathers seem to
have been neglected.
TEE most rapid cannon shots scarcely
reach q speed of 2,OOO feet per second,
while meteorites penetrate the air at the
1ate Of twenty-five or thirty miles, and
even more, per second.
THERE is at Rochester, N. Y, a little girl
who has two tongues. She is between
three and four years old, and her two
when she eats or speaks.
RENE ROBERT CHEvALIER DE LA SALE In
- have statue in the Cathedral Of Rouen.
He was the first explorer Of the great
lakes and the Mississippi, and founded the
French colony in Louisiana.
DURING the life of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress 1S2 bills were vetoed, or 81 more
than the total number of bills vetoed from
the foundation Of the Government to the
beginning Of that Congress.
II NO more birds are killed it will take
period Of three generations Of mems lives
before the woods and pastures can be re-
pe0pled, while some Of the most beautiful
end useful birds are lost to US forever.
A GREAT dictionary-which promises to
b tho most perfect yet colleted-is now
being gotten up In New York, to be called
tho Century Dictionary. 1t win require
the work Of one hundred editors for ten
years to put it in shape.
JUDGE GRAY, Of White County, Ark, was
putting on his wedding clothes the other
day, preparatory to marrying Miss Mamie
Fatty, when he complained of pain in his
right arm, called for water, and then sl-
most immedistely died.
TIE Omaha Repwblicas says that Nina
Van xsndt-Spies swears that she win sue
Tor gross and malignant libel the first
sewspsper that dares to repeat the state.
mont that she has felon ON her hands.
A BILL before the Senate Of Minnesots
provides that an assault by bludgeon or
PISTOL upon On editor, reporter or cor
respondent, Tor malicious libel, shall not
- considered violation Of the penal code.
JosxxIR WILLlAAs, Of Pensacola, while
ont hunting The other day, took deliberate
- st what ~ thought to be bird In the
boahps, snA Allsd The face and neck OF Q
anGge wiAh Ane shoG For - ptGe the
auoY elGaed contsace agreeing - tereoo
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